Kilkenny's Michael Fennelly says he faces a “race against time” to be fit for Kilkenny’s qualifier campaign.

Fennelly hasn’t lined out for the county since last year’s All-Ireland semi-final replay win over Waterford, when he ruptured his Achilles tendon but suffered a setback to the injury recently which ruled him out of the Leinster semi-final defeat to Wexford earlier this month.